[POETRY] [ANTIQUARIAN] THE SHEPHEARDS ORACLES: DELIVERED IN CERTAIN ECLOGUES. |[with] SOLOMON’S RECANTATION, ENTITLED ECCLESIASTES, PARAPHRASED. WITH A SOLILOQUIE OR MEDITATION ~UPON EVERY CHAPTER. VERY SEASONABLE AND USEFULL FOR THESE TIMES. BY FRANCIS QUARLES. WITH SHORT RELATION OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH.

Fra: [Francis] Quarles | [Isaac Walton ?]

London: Printed by M. F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot | Richard Royston, 1646; 1648.

Half Leather. Third Edition. The two works by Fracnis Quarles bound together, in much later (late 19th century) half- calf over brown pebbled cloth boards, with a piece lacking at the spine; with morocco labels; [iv], 129 pages; [vi], 62, [63, 64] pages; neither works has frontispiece (engraved additional title).~~It should be noted that the Address to the Reader in The Shepheards Oracle though signed John Marriot (the printer) but is sometimes attributed to Isaak Walton.~~The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells us that the first poems ‘deals with autobiographical, political, and religious matters under the thin guise of pastoral allegory ... [and that] an Arminian “Master Shepheard” who is severely criticized must be Archbishop Laud.”~~.

Very Good binding.
Item #297338

Price: $750.00